Ukrainian composer Heinali and American poet Matt Finney serve up perhaps 2010′s most depressing record.
Ambient
Deepchord Presents Echospace – Liumin
Deepchord Presents Echospace is the collaborative project of Rod Modell and Steve Hitchell, two veteran producers based in Chicago and Detroit. It is their combined vision that with headphones firmly attached and eyes pressed shut can paint images of paradise.
Pausal – Lapses
Pausal are duo from the Hampshire wilds, and have been around in one form or another for 5 or so years. Lapses is their first full length release and is a warm exploration of the wide upper reaches.
Loscil – Endless Falls
While Loscil’s approach to music is both technical and thoughtful, none of it would matter much if the great pulsing waves of sound he produces weren’t so alluring and beautiful.
Sleep Whale – Houseboat
Sleep Whale attempt to combine ambient and indie-pop genres to create something new… Steve Lampiris debates whether they’ve succeeded or not.
Patrick Kelleher – You Look Cold
Pieced together in a couple of home studios, You Look Cold is as lo-fi an album as you might expect from something that employs a chocolate spread jar as percussion.
Rec.tangle – Heavy Maple
This .seems, at times, like a soundtrack album – incremental and enjoyable enough when noticed, but is essentially happy to stay in the background, largely ignored.
Nadja – When I See The Sun It Always Shines On TV
When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV is a departure for Nadja – a brighter edge to their usual huge billowing drones. The choice of covers is intriguing too: A-Ha, Slayer, The Cure…
Steven Wilson – Insurgentes
How seriously do you take the experience of listening to music? If it’s very, very seriously, Steven Wilson may be for you.
Mountains – Choral
One quality of first class drone is the ability to fill up the space it’s being let out into, emanating from the speakers and flooding into every corner. Safe to say, Choral is some first class drone.
Fuzzy Lights – A Distant Voice
This is dense music that pulls at tiny crevices in your soul, slowly unfolding before you. And if that’s murky as hell, well I’m not from around here.
